273 research outputs found
Ehrhart polynomials of cyclic polytopes
The Ehrhart polynomial of an integral convex polytope counts the number of
lattice points in dilates of the polytope. In math.CO/0402148, the authors
conjectured that for any cyclic polytope with integral parameters, the Ehrhart
polynomial of it is equal to its volume plus the Ehrhart polynomial of its
lower envelope and proved the case when the dimension d = 2. In our article, we
prove the conjecture for any dimension.Comment: 15 page
On Volumes of Permutation Polytopes
This paper focuses on determining the volumes of permutation polytopes
associated to cyclic groups, dihedral groups, groups of automorphisms of tree
graphs, and Frobenius groups. We do this through the use of triangulations and
the calculation of Ehrhart polynomials. We also present results on the theta
body hierarchy of various permutation polytopes.Comment: 19 pages, 1 figur
On positivity of Ehrhart polynomials
Ehrhart discovered that the function that counts the number of lattice points
in dilations of an integral polytope is a polynomial. We call the coefficients
of this polynomial Ehrhart coefficients, and say a polytope is Ehrhart positive
if all Ehrhart coefficients are positive (which is not true for all integral
polytopes). The main purpose of this article is to survey interesting families
of polytopes that are known to be Ehrhart positive and discuss the reasons from
which their Ehrhart positivity follows. We also include examples of polytopes
that have negative Ehrhart coefficients and polytopes that are conjectured to
be Ehrhart positive, as well as pose a few relevant questions.Comment: 40 pages, 7 figures. To appear in in Recent Trends in Algebraic
Combinatorics, a volume of the Association for Women in Mathematics Series,
Springer International Publishin
A note on lattice-face polytopes and their Ehrhart polynomials
We give a new definition of lattice-face polytopes by removing an unnecessary
restriction in the paper "Ehrhart polynomials of lattice-face polytopes", and
show that with the new definition, the Ehrhart polynomial of a lattice-face
polytope still has the property that each coefficient is the normalized volume
of a projection of the original polytope. Furthermore, we show that the new
family of lattice-face polytopes contains all possible combinatorial types of
rational polytopes.Comment: 11 page
The Number of Nowhere-Zero Flows on Graphs and Signed Graphs
A nowhere-zero -flow on a graph is a mapping from the edges of
to the set \{\pm1, \pm2, ..., \pm(k-1)\} \subset \bbZ such that, in
any fixed orientation of , at each node the sum of the labels over the
edges pointing towards the node equals the sum over the edges pointing away
from the node. We show that the existence of an \emph{integral flow polynomial}
that counts nowhere-zero -flows on a graph, due to Kochol, is a consequence
of a general theory of inside-out polytopes. The same holds for flows on signed
graphs. We develop these theories, as well as the related counting theory of
nowhere-zero flows on a signed graph with values in an abelian group of odd
order. Our results are of two kinds: polynomiality or quasipolynomiality of the
flow counting functions, and reciprocity laws that interpret the evaluations of
the flow polynomials at negative integers in terms of the combinatorics of the
graph.Comment: 17 pages, to appear in J. Combinatorial Th. Ser.
Enumerating Colorings, Tensions and Flows in Cell Complexes
We study quasipolynomials enumerating proper colorings, nowhere-zero
tensions, and nowhere-zero flows in an arbitrary CW-complex , generalizing
the chromatic, tension and flow polynomials of a graph. Our colorings, tensions
and flows may be either modular (with values in for
some ) or integral (with values in ). We obtain
deletion-contraction recurrences and closed formulas for the chromatic, tension
and flow quasipolynomials, assuming certain unimodularity conditions. We use
geometric methods, specifically Ehrhart theory and inside-out polytopes, to
obtain reciprocity theorems for all of the aforementioned quasipolynomials,
giving combinatorial interpretations of their values at negative integers as
well as formulas for the numbers of acyclic and totally cyclic orientations of
.Comment: 28 pages, 3 figures. Final version, to appear in J. Combin. Theory
Series
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